14 Aug 2012 dmarti   » (Master)

Assorted links

Enjoy.

The Unbearable Stasis of "Accelerating Change" (via Charles Stross: Deconstructing our future)

A Day in the Life of a Developer Evangelist

Failure of Leadership in the GitHub Model of Collaborative Software Development

Maybe We’d Behave Better With Horrible Winters

News from the patent wars: Don’t Feed the Troll!

Engendering Change? Gender Advocacy in Open Source

Ikea data viz hack FTW: Desk with Meters

What Are The Politics Of The Internet?

Google On The L Train: Sci-fi, Wifi And The MTA

Intellectual Ventures Loses Its Shine: Will Its Business Model Ever Work?

We Have Too Many Patents, Not Too Few

Why Is Job Growth Tepid?—Posner

Reinventing Affordable Housing: Tiny and cheap instead of large and expensively subsidized

Alameda to allow construction of new apartments

When the Army Was Democratic

Fight For Your Right to Go Paleo

The End of Free Conference Calls

Japanese Robot Can Beat Humans At Rock-Paper-Scissors Every Time

The Best Sales Reps Avoid "Talkers"

Earn Customer Loyalty Without Losing Your Shirt

Developer evangelism tasks: pre-emptive writing

The Twin Cities' broadband challenge

How to Grow Food in a Drought

Dumping iron at sea can bury carbon for centuries, study shows

I can understand that it wasn't Free from day one, but why not code escrow to protect your favorite applications from being acq-hired into oblivion? The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition

Walkability, Mobility, and Freedom (and you don't have software freedom either, if you don't know how to use it.)

Advertising Gets Personal

I Am the Intern Who Reads All of Your Mocking Tweets at the Official Taco Bell Twitter Account by Liz Arcury

The economics of Google Fiber and what it means for U.S. broadband

3D printed weapons and FUD.

Can We Quantify a Good Walk?

Parking Policy in Seattle Gets Less Bad

The Guerilla Guide to Social Business

Ask A Writer: In Which I Exhort You To Care Less

How to work from home and not suck at it

HuffPo, The Daily and the flawed iPad content model

The new environmentalism: where men must act 'as gods' to save the planet | Paul Kingsnorth

Effective web managers tackle digital governance

Man, if someone could combine the addictivness of gaming with the benefits of exercise, life would be good. Hope this guy can pull it off: The Most Ambitious Project I’ve Ever Announced

Do Not Track in the Windows 8 Setup Experience

What Google Fiber Says about Tech Policy: Fiber Rings Fit Deregulatory Hands

MIT Economist: Here's How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia

LibreOffice progress to 3.6.0

Karen McGrane – Content Strategy for Mobile

Is the Hacker Dojo worth saving? (spoilers: yes!)

Important DMCA/SEO connection that I'm surprised wasn't there already: An update to our search algorithms

And a response: Paved with Good Intentions

It’s A Dark Time To Be A Consumer In The Cloud

Google Copyright Transparency Report

All Your Work Should Be Sand Castles

Good demo video, showing email as part of workflow: Alfresco demo showing rule based on lat/lon, Mobile App, & CMIS

I could not sleep after I read this in hardcover: Hugo-nominated sf novel Blindsight available for free

Better than some of the crazy crap they're selling at the Post Office now: How to Save the Postal Service

Atul Gawande: Can hospital chains improve the medical industry?

Syndicated 2012-08-14 14:10:26 from Don Marti

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